Harriet Alexander

The paper identifies two strategies for phytoplankton growth under multiple stressors and finds Prochlorococcus more vulnerable to heat stress in tropical regions.

The paper examines how nutrient response strategies of two rare phytoplankton taxa contribute to their increasing prevalence in Cape Cod Bay over 20 years.

This study characterizes the microbiomes of Phaeocystis antarctica colonies in the Southern Ocean and laboratory culture, showing shifts in bacterial composition and highlighting the importance of field studies for understanding microbial interactions.

The paper examines how intraspecific diversity in thermal response shapes phytoplankton ecological niches by growing 12 strains of Gephyrocapsa huxleyi under different temperatures and modeling their biogeography.

The paper highlights issues with taxonomic annotation in microbial eukaryote meta-omic datasets and proposes clustering as a more accurate approach than alignment-based methods.

The paper uses metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic analysis of plankton biomass collected across a 1,050 km transect in the western North Atlantic Ocean to reveal shifts in microeukaryote community composition and metabolic function across depth and environmental gradients.

This study shows that vitamin B12 provides a growth advantage to marine bacteria at high temperatures, with implications for microbial community dynamics under climate change.

The paper introduces a metatranscriptome assembly pipeline and validates it using simulated data, then applies it to real datasets to improve taxonomic and functional discovery.

The paper introduces EukMetaSanity, a software package for high-throughput gene prediction in eukaryotic genomes, demonstrating reliable predictions for 1,700+ genomes including MAGs.

The paper re-assembles and annotates 678 microbial eukaryotic transcriptomes using new tools and compares them to previous assemblies, finding novel gene content and taxon-specific trends.